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(c. 1831 - 1863)
Home State: Rhode Island
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 30, a mariner from Hopkinton, he enlisted in Providence on 13 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 4th Rhode Island Infantry on 30 October in Washington, DC. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot that broke his thigh bone in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Locust Spring and Smoketown field hospitals near Sharpsburg He was transferred to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD where he died of his wounds on 11 June 1863.
His widow began receiving a US pension in March 1864 (retroactive to June 1863).
After the War
He was reinterred from his burial in Frederick to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
His service from Allen1 and the Register.2 Wound and hospital details from Nelson3 and a list of Cases of Gunshot fractured femurs at Battle of Antietam by Surgeon Truman Squire, 89th New York Infantry. His burial from the History.4 Personal details from his widow's US Pension File, online via fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Ellen McGuire (c. 1835-1913) in January 1854 and they had 2 sons, Savel Delmath and Samuel Henry Harvey; they may have lost an earlier child, a boy born in August 1855.
Birth
c. 1831; New Shoreham, RI
Death
06/11/1863; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Allen, George H., Forty-six Months with the Fourth R. I. Volunteers, in the War of 1861 to 1865, Providence: J.A. & R.A. Reid, printers, 1887, pp. 381 - 386 [AotW citation 4401]
2 State of Rhode Island, and Henri Crandall, Acting Adjutant General, Official Register of Rhode Island Officers and Soldiers ... 1861 to 1865, in the Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Rhode Island for 1865, Providence: Providence Press, 1866 [AotW citation 30490]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 239 [AotW citation 30491]
4 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869, p. 154 [AotW citation 30492]